Emmy Award-winning WCBS-TV anchor and reporter Mary Calvi’s book, “Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington’s First Love” (St. Martin’s Press), traces the tale of a real-life romance that happened in 18th-century Westchester County. Its 300-plus pages are devoted to the star-crossed love story of future Founding Father George Washington and Mary Eliza Philipse, the spirited heiress of historic Philipse Manor Hall in Yonkers. From top: John Wollaston’s “Mary Philipse” (circa 1750), oil on canvas. Gift of Martha Baird Rockefeller. Gift of Mary Baird Rockefeller; and Charles Wilson Peale’s “Portrait of George Washington” as a colonel of the Virginia Regiment (1772), oil on canvas. On loan from Washington and Lee University to George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Virginia, estate. Courtesy Historic Hudson Valley.
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